Remove leading, trailing (and, if requested, duplicate) spaces
Usage
hsTrim(str, trim.multiple.spaces = TRUE, dbg = FALSE)
Arguments
- str
vector of character containing the strings to be trimmed
- trim.multiple.spaces
if TRUE (default), multiple consecutive spaces
are replaced by one space
- dbg
if TRUE (the default is FALSE) debut messages are
shown
Value
input string str without leading or trailing spaces and with
multiple consecutive spaces being replaced by a single space